I think you’re missing the point of what I’m saying. Unfortunately, words are difficult enough to produce for me, I don’t have a better way to express it.

Only answering your last paragraph. You will not, ever, find a 1:1 equivalent for a few reasons, but mostly because:

• Windows quircks do not have to be accomodated in Linux distros
• Microsoft has very much encouraged massive software where everything is done in a single application, whereas in UNIX world the philosophy is to do one thing and do it well.
• Not sure how DFS works, but with the myriad of networked filesystems available I’m sure there’s an exact requirement match.

Users can be centrally managed in a myriad of ways, but the most used software seems to be following the same X.500 standard - OpenLDAP, FreeIPA, etc.

Machines can be centrally managed via Puppet, Chef, etc.

Company software is managed by having your own repo.

SELinux can be used for incredibly granular access controls, but I can’t see most companies actually needing that.

To sum it up - you’ll always have trouble if you’re solving a windows problem in linux and vice versa. Just for a moment, try imagining a situation where you want to switch a 100% linux company to windows.

Please consider raising an issue describing your widget! Developers can’t implement something they don’t know is missing.

Gentoo/Arch guy checking in. It’s more about having fewer codepaths to go wrong after some update. At least in my case.